Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1887-07-29
property now yields more than 5000.
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General Pickett's Widow.

From tho N. Y. Worlds Gettysburg Letter.
had D conversation with Mrs.
Pickett upon her return to the Springs
MOTEL from the battlefield. She has
been profoundly impressed by the
irlendshlp and courtesy extended to
the men OF her husbands old division
and. with the touching and delicate
kindness exhibited towards herself.
While we sat talking, numbers OF the
Phiiad' lphia brigade, in couples and
tours and sometimes in larger num-
bers, were frequently calling to pay
their respects before departing from
gettysburg, and to assure her of their
interest and kindly feeling. In almost
every instance these men left their or
ganization badges with her, and the
| wlte OF one Of the Seventy first, who
accompanied her husband, took from
her breast and pinned upon that OF
Mrs. Pickett O. bow made of blue and
gray ribbons. Neither of the ladies
could utter word during the touch
ing performance, but the fearful eyes
and warm pressure OF hands as they
separated were more eloquent than
any words that were struggling for ut.
terance.
$40 you know" said Mrs. Pickett,
as she pointed to the ribbon souvenir
OF blue and gray, that I have been
mlngling these colors for twenty years.
When the war was over the women of
the south were far more bitter than
our defeated soldiers. We refused all
overtures looking to reconstruction
and declined every offer for reconcilia.
ton. Twenty years ago was in New
York city. Gen. Ingalls, called upon
me. I suppose showed by my man
ner OF greeting General Ingalls, that l
did not have very warm regard for
him. Gen. Ingalls, noticed this, and
said: My dear Mrs. Pickett, you
shout not entertain and perpetuate
hostile feelings toward your husbands
army friends. Why, he and I were to-
gether at West Point. We slept un.
der the same blanket and fought side
by side under the same flag in a. for
eign land. There should be no bitter
ness in your breast toward me and his
other army friends That speech of
General Ingalls, caused my reconcilia-
ton. It explained the feeling
that brave soldiers entertain
for each other. The following day I
took my husbands watch, the same
that was presented to him upon his
graduation at West Point, to q jewell
er, had the union and confederate
flags placed upon the outside of the
case with their staff crossed, and up
on it's inside had engraved the names
of the BATTLES in which he participated
under the union flag in Mexico and
those in which be participated under
the confederate flag"
She said that on the morning OF
July 3, 1868, while Pickett's division
lay in the woods preparatory to the
fatal charge, the general wrote her a
letter, in which he told his wife about
his orders to charge upon Cemetary
hill. In the letter he referred to his
meeting with General Longstreet in
connection with the order to charge,
and the hesitating manner OF the lat
ter when Pickett asked Longstreet if
he should move On Cemetery hill with
his division.
"After he had concluded and signed
his letter." said Mrs. Pickett, ''the
general added a postscript in which he
said I know that Longstreet's nod, If
it meant anything, means death. God
bless you, little one ,"